Can we ever stop inhuman acts? The Greek coastguard stands accused of deliberately drowning desperate migrants. It is making some lose their faith in the good of humanity.
Outcry over migrants ‘thrown into the sea’
Small boats: "Unauthorised arrivals by sea" into Greece peaked at 856,723 in 2015. Glossary
Mediterranean - A sea connected to the Atlantic Ocean. It has the shores of Europe on one and the shores of north Africa on the other, as well as shoreline in Asia.
Coastguard - An organisation that monitors coastal waters to help ships in danger and prevent smuggling.
Sigmund Freud - An Austrian psychoanalyst who was one of the world’s foremost authorities on psychology in the late 19th and early 20th Centuries. Although his ideas have been discredited in the scientific community, he remains influential for literary scholars.
Hannah Arendt - A Jewish German political philosopher who escaped a concentration camp and fled to America. She wrote extensively about Nazism.
Adolf Eichmann - The senior Nazi in charge of organising the deportation of Jews to extermination camps during World War Two. He was convicted of crimes against humanity and hanged in 1961.
Holocaust - The murder of six million Jewish people in Europe by Nazi Germany. Members of other minority groups were also killed.
Fanatic - Someone who fervently and enthusiastically believes in something.
Friedrich Nietzsche - A German classical scholar, philosopher, and critic of culture (1844 – 1900), who became one of the most influential of all modern thinkers.
Compassion - Showing feelings of sadness, sympathy and genuine care for other people's suffering.